JOYCE JAMES Dubliners

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JOYCE, JAMES. Dubliners. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, front cover mottled and streaked with majority of gilt title rubbed free, corners and spine tips lightly bumped; retouched copy with dyed red endpapers and all edges stained red; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper; area of abrasion to p. 126 with three letters inked over in unknown hand and a few accompanying red spots. London: Grant Richards, (1914)

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first published edition. 1250 copies were printed of this first edition; 746 were bound by Grant Richards and 504 copies were sent to the United States for the American edition. An anomalous copy with the original pastedowns and front and rear flyleaves dyed red. We are unaware of any like copy, and whether or not these modifications emanated from the publisher remains speculative. Slocum & Cahoon A8.